From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 10:11:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webs1.accretive-networks.net (webs1.accretive-networks.net [207.246.154.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B097537B41D for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (davidk@localhost) by webs1.accretive-networks.net (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA7IBmh66664; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:11:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:11:48 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner X-X-Sender: To: Flemming Froekjaer Cc: Scott Mitchell , Subject: Re: Dump/restore from Linux to FreeBSD machine In-Reply-To: <3BE97532.4090007@froekjaer.org> Message-ID: <20011107100937.B44499-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >As the subject says, I'm trying to backup the contents of a large RAID array > >on a Debian Linux machine and restore it onto an even larger RAID on a > >FreeBSD box. I figured something like this would do the job: > > > I can't find it right now, but I'm sure that you can't use dump/restore > to move files between Linux and FreeBSD. > dump works on file systems, not files, and the file system is different > on the 2 OS. > > \Flemming It works okay in this case because you're running the original dump on FreeBSD. restore knows how to read the dump either way (it's standard 4.4BSD restore). The only thing that is a problem, I think, is the ffs extended flags. I don't know if dump supports them, but I'm sure that restore on Linux does not. (However, if you ran the restore process on the FreeBSD box this may avoid the problem). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message